Omena Cut Flowers U-Pick Flower Farm

11/12/2025

For everyone digging and dividing dahlia tubers right now this is great info.

11/12/2025

From my latest e-news: sign up to receive my infrequent emails here: https://www.omenacutflowers.com/contact -NEWSLETTER

❄️Well, friends, the season is over. Except for dried flower pumpkins, which will be available in the shed until Thanksgiving.

❄️The recent snow storm caught me off guard. A basket of clippers and clipboards under the Upick structure were blanketed with the white stuff.

🌺Call it my subconscious state of mind, leaving those things out, not wanting to call it quits. I turned off the cooler and brought all of the remaining bouquets up to the house and have been enjoying this last glimpse of summer.

🧩And like a tired toddler who finally gives into her nap, I am enjoying the quiet, and used these snowy days to split five crates of dahlia tubers we dug before the storm. I have started a new puzzle, began to clean my very messy house and am looking forward to the fast-approaching holidays.

🌸But…there is still work to be done out there. First priority is to dig the last third of the dahlias still in the ground. BTW Dahlia tubers are looking great so far.

🫖Make yourself a pot of tea and think about what you might want to include in your garden next year. You can reserve tubers now at at 2025 prices and pay when you pick up in the spring. Shop here: https://www.omenacutflowers.com/dahlias Just email me your wish list.

🌱If the weather permits, more annuals should be hauled off to the compost pile and winter rye planted in their place. But at some point, things are left undone once Mother Nature deems it so. And that’s fine. (Marigold does not seem to mind the cold or snow).

🙏I’d like to thank everyone for your support this year and for the last, yes, 29 summers. Can’t believe we start our third decade in 2026!

P.S. dried flower pumpkins for your Thanksgiving table ard in the shed now or messsge me to reserve. Thanks again to the 125 people who have already purchased one.

11/07/2025

11 pumpkins in the shed now. More to come. Message me if you would like to reserve one or more.

11/07/2025

This is a really great and informative post about dividing dahlias. I do it pretty much the same way except I don’t wash mine as I think a coating of dirt helps keep tubers from drying out. And I rarely save the mother tuber as she is too prone to rot.

11/06/2025

🌞Grateful for this beautiful sunny day.

💪Dave and I started digging dahlias last week. Today my flower farmer friend Angie of .parkflowers spent a couple of hours behind the pitchfork. So great to have the help and catch up with this dear friend.

🎃A dozen dried flower pumpkins are in the shed and would love to have Thanksgiving 🦃 dinner with you.

✅I will post more soon about my dahlia digging and storage game. Dig, process, store, repeat. I’m about 30% done so far. Stay tuned.

11/04/2025

“Is it too late to order a dried flower pumpkin?” NO! Order now or up to 11/25 for your Thanksgiving table. See 1st comment for details. 🎃🦃🦃🦃🦃

11/03/2025

🌞All summer long I walk past problem areas in the garden. Too busy to address them other than to add to my ongoing to do list.

😁 I’m delighted to have knocked two of them off the list, thanks to Dave.

✅ The giant Incrediball hydrangea near the entrance was taking over the world—Blocking my shed from view and making it impossible to get the tractor down that row.

🪏Dave chopped it back and dug out multiple clumps of suckers. Now our shed will be more visible which will be especially nice when we decorate it for Christmas! 🎄

✅ The center “peace pole” bed is vacant of phlox now (kudos to Dave the digger!) and planted in winter rye.

🙏Thanks to all who came and bought $10 phlox pots—(there are still about 25 left out there).

🌻I’m planning to plant sunflowers here next year I think. Or some kind of annual with a criscross of paths through it so you can get in there to cut them.

✅ In case you didn’t know, I’m a big fan of to-do lists. ☺️

11/01/2025

🌺 Still no frost here at OCF! But we do have a full cooler and lots of dried flower 🎃 pumpkins.

11/01/2025

Lots of dried flower pumpkins in the shed! 😃🎃

11/01/2025

10/31/2025

🩺This is where our son, Sam, works. Love their take on pumpkins—Happy Halloween!

👨‍⚕️Sam is an M.D. who specializes in rheumatology and runs a new clinic for this fine hospital system in Santa Fe, NM. We are so proud of him—he’s worked so hard and spent 10 years in training. And happy he has landed in such a great place! 🥰

🎃This came across my feed as I am on my way to the shed with more dried flower pumpkins!

10/30/2025

🎃At the risk of being annoyingly repetitive, FYI there are lots of pumpkins in the shed. IMO they are the perfect Thanksgiving table decorations. 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

✅I’m making them daily with the goal of having 8-10 in the shed for you to choose from.

💐bouquets to go too.

🍁🐕🐾 Marigold on the Leelanau Trail. Loving all the crunchy leaves, blue skies and bright colors this week!